Description
Newchurch, a parish in Kent, 2 miles S of the Military Canal, 3 1/2 ESE of Ham Street station on the S.E.R., and 4 1/2 N by W of New Romney. It has a post office under Folkestone; money order and telegraph office, Dymchurch. Acreage, 3180 ; population, 355. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Canterbury; value, £280 with residence. Patron, the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church is Early English, consists of nave, aisles, and chancel, with an embattled tower, and has very beautiful pillars within the aisles.
Transcribed from The Comprehensive Gazetteer of England and Wales, 1894-5
